Joe_________________debian wheezy ,linux mint, slackware I use them all and they all have good points
Mint would be best for general users thoughLast edited by big_bass on Tue 29 Jun 2010, 13:17; edited 38 times in total

I like Slackware and am now downloading your iso. In fact, on my desktop machines, I still use 3.01 because it is Slackware-based and extremely stable. Congratulations. I expect to be upgrading my machines soon.

Will be great to have its core ready for net-booting and then load one's choice applications via NFS or Samba shares. (No other puppy does it, not even Quirky.)

Also, I was looking for a way to access Slackware packages through Slaxer. How is this done? (Yes, dumb question. )_________________Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).

I am uploading some txz packages so you can try out the package management

if you know the package is good you can just click on the package and it will install
it first asks a yes or no with the package name

updated the server with more packages
all the nvidia drivers and more
the cooking packages are txz
***************txz cooking***********

another feature I built in was package 2 folder
if you right click on the package you get an option to decompress and make a folder using unzipper_dragndrop5 in the ROX right click box

thats for seeing whats inside a package before installing it
a safety step or you can edit it and rebuild it

if you wanted to install official packages you have to be more careful here
because of dependencies
thats why I added in a dependency checker

but an example would be
http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/

then you could select 12.2
or 13

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-13.0

*if "I can" add in any support you need I will

Joe_________________debian wheezy ,linux mint, slackware I use them all and they all have good points
Mint would be best for general users thoughLast edited by big_bass on Sat 22 May 2010, 20:08; edited 6 times in total

Thank you for the update on Slaxer_Pup! Unfortunately, this is a mute Pup on my Dell Inspiron 910 netbook, even after adding "options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=dell" at the end of your /etc/modprobe.conf file. (This worked on your previous Slaxer_Pup version.)

I am wondering if the missing "Speaker" volume setting in Alsaconfig is the culprit, but have no way to verify my suspicions.

Silly me, my problem was that I was using the 'puppy pfix=ram' boot parameter! I had forgotten that the "options snd-hda-intel model=dell" addition at the end of /etc/modprobe.conf file would not take just by re-starting X; one has to create a save-file and reboot without pfix=ram for the change to be recognised.

This statement is valid for all Linux distro's I know of which are using versions of Alsa prior to v1.0.20. Sound works with Slaxer_Pup's earlier version of Alsa after modifying modprobe.conf and rebooting with a save-file.

Again, my apologies for not remembering the necessary steps with Alsa v1.0.16!

Sound works with Slaxer_Pup's earlier version of Alsa after modifying modprobe.conf and rebooting with a save-file.

Quote:

I had forgotten that the "options snd-hda-intel model=dell" addition at the end of /etc/modprobe.conf file would not take just by re-starting X; one has to create a save-file and reboot without pfix=ram for the change to be recognised.

Hey Roy

that will be a big help to anyone that has a special fix for sound
on Alsa v1.0.16

there is a good reason I didnt update alsa on the first cooking
because from here on .... everthing will be updated and I had to establish a reference point with all the built in package management support making it slackware 13 package compatible

remember all this work is pre woof I added in and coded the Xdialog
package management from scratch since there is no how to for that

with all that new power at hand its just a small step away from
a major packages update

*thanks for posting the sound fix for your box Roy !

updated the server with more packages
all the nvidia drivers and more
the cooking packages are txz

Joe_________________debian wheezy ,linux mint, slackware I use them all and they all have good points
Mint would be best for general users though

Thanks for being so understanding / forgiving, Joe. I still fell like a bit of a heel.....

Can you explain a bit about how your package management system works? After getting sound to work, I downloaded your Broadcom wireless driver to a thumb drive from another computer, transferred it over to the Dell, and installed it by right clicking on it (same method as any other .pet). That put my Dell netbook on line.

But, even with an active internet connection, clicking on ~/slaxer_pkg_tools2.2 doesn't seem to accomplish anything. It does bring up the Xdialog box of options, and clicking on xinstaller shows any .txz package I have previously (manually) downloaded and placed in the ~ directory, but then returns to the main Xdialog screen. Nothing gets installed, nothing shows up in Puppy Package Manager (Menu > Setup > Puppy package manager). Even the Broadcom driver package -- although clearly installed and functioning -- doesn't show up as "installed".

I am certain that this is simply an education issue and am not doing something quite right on my end.

Oh, by the way, booting from a CD with a save file on a thumb drive is giving me an initial desktop which is strictly black -- no icons, no background,... restarting the X-server (ctrl-alt-backspace) from there fixes it -- so I might have other problems on my end.

It does bring up the Xdialog box of options, and clicking on xinstaller shows any .txz package I have previously (manually) downloaded and placed in the ~ directory, but then returns to the main Xdialog screen. Nothing gets installed, nothing shows up in Puppy Package Manager (Menu > Setup > Puppy package manager). Even the Broadcom driver package -- although clearly installed and functioning -- doesn't show up as "installed".

Yes! you have discovered that you can install packages
without petget

you just installed the packages and updated the Broadcom wireless driver using the Xdialog slaxer installer which officially registers the package without petget in the middle to handle things

if you play a bit with the installed package you could check dependencies

you could see every file that was installed
you could search for packages
you could uninstall it too

and you dont have to be a slaxerware user
because its set up to be easy

this means that you can install /uninstall and register
packages using my built in support with the Xdialog slaxer management
which also means many more things
you now have a distro that can handle

No need to uninstall anything to my knowledge. Just download pwireless-0.8.4.pet and install it over version 0.8.3.

-Roy

BTW, it looks like some of the issues I had earlier were caused by a problem with my save file... I am learning to dislike the thumbdrives with the unmarked little read/write switch on the side of them!

Hi Joe
Installed the updated files and set this machine up from scratch with DEVX and kernal sources. All is working well got VBox up and running easliy
I got a bit carried away thought about installing some TV recording scripts and VLC.
I have TV set up on the same machine using a vanilla puppy 4.3 so ran dmesg and surprisingly there was no DVB-T device.

Great to see your long term commitment to this normalizing derivative.
I have a 20,000 record + access control system running on xp in vbox in slaxer_pup at an organisation that I do voluntary work for. Running perfectly, up time now 6 weeks since I shifted it over from 'parallels' and centos 4.6.

First attempt didn't seem to install, but my bottom right tray Freememoryapplet ended up in the upper left-hand corner of my screen in a Gtk-dialog (?) box.

A second attempt to install Skype from the download found Skype under Network in the main menu chain. Never could restore the Free Memory applet, so just performed a hard shutdown via the power button and started over.

Ended up installing skype-2.0.0.72.pet which I had downloaded from the forum ages ago.

Should I be using Slackware 12 stuff for now instead of Slackware 13.0 stuff?

-Roy

ADDED as an afterthought: Maybe it would be a good idea for me to read the earlier Slaxer_Pup threads to get a better handle on the additional software issue....!

Ended up installing skype-2.0.0.72.pet which I had downloaded from the forum ages ago.

you said that you installed a pet from the forum for skype
and that version was compiled "static"
if it works for you use it

but what is not known to the end user that way is what is required to
fill the correct dependencies "its all rolled in one package" but its not [one] package
so you could be mislead into thinking if I just download a skype package it should work
without any other dependent packages (it keeps the user in the dark to have any chance to use a full blown linux system )

skype which requires at least as add on dependencies

--> dbus-glib-0.80
--> glib2-2.18.4
-->qt-r1008952 a special qt

there is also a dependency check in the package tools
slaxer_pkg_tools2.2

if you run the dependency check on that program
a list is saved in
/var/lib/pkgtool/dependencies/

that if all the dependencies were met you wouldn't have this line
-----------------------------------------------
has these missing library files:
libQtDBus.so.4 libQtGui.so.4 libQtNetwork.so.4 libQtCore.so.4

many complex packages that require various other packages
to be complete it is important to know what is needed first

I will be building more packages as I go

thanks for the wireless fix I uploaded the fix as a txz package
pwireless-0.8.4-i486-3_SLXR.txz

Joe_________________debian wheezy ,linux mint, slackware I use them all and they all have good points
Mint would be best for general users thoughLast edited by big_bass on Mon 24 May 2010, 15:09; edited 1 time in total

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum